About Me

Special Projects

– Assisted Melbourne law enforcement in locating a mitochondrial DNA reference in Ireland and Australia for fugitive killer Elmer Crawford who murdered his wife and three children in 1970 in Australia, to establish whether or not a look-alike drifter in Texas was Crawford. (He was not.) See Identifinders Blog entries August 29- September 1, 2010, DNA Rule-Out for Cold Case Australia, Parts I & II.

– Assisted the LAPD with the identification of the Grim Sleeper Serial Murderer through comparing his DNA profile with genetic genealogy database. Was able to confirm killer was African American along the male line of his family.

Feb 2009 Consultant, Benjaman Kyle Amnesia Victim Identification

– Directing and organizing efforts, with the help of Benjaman’s advocate, with the identification of amnesia victim found in Savannah, GA in 2002. See story on Identifinders website at Benjaman Kyle, the Man without An Identity.

– The Hand in the Snow (Northwest Flight 4422) Project - Identification of the remains of a merchant mariner killed in the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight #4422, Alaska, March 18, 1948. Read more on Identifinders website at The Hand in the Snow.

– Locating owners of unclaimed property based on a name and a last known address sometimes over 20 years old. Specializing in international locations including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Argentina, Panama, Guatemala, the US, Canada, the Netherland Antilles, Estonia, Lebanon, Morocco, France, Italy, and England.

2006-2007 Consultant, Becker Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA

– Edited and reworked proposal to Discovery Channel for a series on forensic genealogy. Episodes involved the genealogies of famous people of various ethnic backgrounds.

You also might want to check out the website of our company Idenifinders International, www.identifinders.com, where I have posted descriptions of some of the cool projects I have been very fortunate to have been involved in. Click on Case Histories to read about The Unknown Child on the Titanic, The Hand in the Snow, Benjaman Kyle, Smithers-Gray, and the two Holocaust Literary Frauds I have helped expose. You’ll enjoy reading about them. Make sure you click on some of the links in the right margin of each page for further information.

Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD

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I love this site! It is a fabulous source of information. As a writer, I do phenomenal amounts of research and have to have impeccable sources. Just one issue: there are often incorrect or unconfirmed facts published on the site. I don’t know if this matters to anyone or not, but I would love to be able to use Identifinders as a named or quotable source. The greatest majority of my work is in the True Crime Genre; specifically, I publish detailed accounts of murder, kidnapping, domestic violence & serial killings, the resulting investigations, and their conclusions. Needless to say, it’s not easy to find an intelligent, informative source such as Identifinders. As I said before, I love this site and will keep returning, I would just love even more to use it as a backup to my research and as a quotable/named source. On behalf of victims and their families everywhere, thank you so much for all the work put into this site.

I understand your comments about posting unconfirmed facts. I try to be as clear and responsible as possible when I write a post. Sometimes it is difficult to do this, as much of my success is based on intuition, so that it is not easy to explain or to document what led me from point A to point B. If you would like to talk about specific cases, or have some points you would like me to clarify, please write me directly at colleen@identifinders.com